April 2020: We may be running a simplified version of our original field season plan due to COVID-19, but we've got starling hatchlings already! Stay tuned to learn more about our preliminary results on their growth, behavior and physiology across two populations.

March 2020: We are excited to have two new fantastic students joining the lab this August as part of the MSIB graduate program at Kennesaw State to work on our European starling study system. Welcome Denyelle and Courtney!

February 2020: I was awarded an Outreach Grant from the Animal Behavior Society to showcase examples of animal behavior right in our backyards to elementary and high school students. Can't wait to start working on this outreach project with our fantastic group of undergraduate student researchers.

February 2020: We've officially deployed 100 nest boxes in and around Kennesaw! Thanks to Directed Research Methods student Haley for putting up the last box of the season. Our team is eager to monitor these boxes for signs of breeding activity. Bring on the starlings!

January 2020: New paper accepted in Integrative and Comparative Biology! Stay tuned for the special issue on perspectives in stress research, and my contribution on individual variation in glucocorticoid plasticity.

December 2019: We have been busy this semester! We are deploying some of our nest boxes in order to study local starlings this spring. A fantastic team of undergraduate students are preparing to examine the behavior and physiology in these animals soon!

November 2019: Our new paper has been accepted for publication in the American Naturalist. Read the lay summary on our work showing the survival benefits that superb starlings experience by living in large social groups in a fluctuating environment here.

September 2019: The Guindre-Parker lab is recruiting! If you are interested in pursuing a MS degree in Integrative Biology, consider applying to join the lab!

August 2019: The Guindre-Parker lab is open for science! If you are interested in working with us, please visit the Join page to learn more about the lab and the projects we currently have available

June 2019: The Kluane Red Squirrel Project has officially published 100 peer-reviewed articles! My work on individual variation in endocrine plasticity marks the 100th paper produced by the impressive KRSP team. Keep an eye out for this article in Biology Letters or on our lab's publications page

May 2019: I'm excited to announce the Guindre-Parker lab is moving to Georgia, where we will recruit bright undergraduate and Master's students to help expand our research on the evolution of behavioral and endocrine flexibility. You can find us in Kennesaw State University's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology starting August 2019. Watch this space for more details, coming soon

May 2019: I had such a fun discussion with students from Los Gatos High School, where these bright minds asked amazing questions about field work, career paths, and the broader impacts of animal biology research. I highly recommend connecting with students like these via Skype a Scientist

May 2019: I'm thankful for the inspiring community of peers and mentors I joined through the Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior (WFAB) Symposium. If you're at the 2019 Animal Behavior meeting in Chicago this July, be sure to check out the WFAB workshop

January 2019: I'm thrilled to have been selected to participate in the Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior (WFAB) Program! I can't wait to meet the other participants in Arizona this May during the early career symposium.

January 2019: Another year, another fantastic SICB meeting! I gave a talk on my recent work on the fitness consequences of endocrine plasticity in Kluane Red Squirrels, as well as a poster on the fitness benefits and physiological costs of social group size in superb starlings. The Dantzer lab was well represented at the meeting in Tampa, and our fearless leader delivered a fantastic Bartholomew Lecture! Go team!

December 2018: Happy holidays, from one researcher and her superb starlings! I'm excited that the Journal of Experimental Biology featured my research and photo on their holiday card!

August 2018: Our new paper on the lack of short-term physiological costs of parental and allo-parental care in cooperatively breeding superb starlings was just accepted by the Journal of Experimental Biology. Keep an eye out for the online version on the journal website or under the publications section of my website.

July 2018: I had the pleasure of heading back up to the Yukon this summer to collect endocrine data from Kluane Red Squirrels. I'm looking forward to performing lab work and uncovering which components of the HPA-axis are the targets of selection in our experimental evolution population. Stay tuned!

June 2018: My research on superb starlings is featured on this month's cover of Royal Society Open Science. Read more about my dissertation work here, describing how breeders and alloparents adjust their offspring care according to environmental and social conditions.

May 2018: I have two new articles in press in Oecologia and Integrative and Comparative Biology. Stay tuned to learn more about the oxidative costs of parental care in cooperative vs. non-cooperative breeders, as well as recent advances in the evolutionary endocrinology of circulating glucocorticoid hormones across multiple scales of study.

March 2018: I had fantastic visits to the Universities of Windsor and Michigan where I delivered departmental seminars on my superb starling research titled "The costs & benefits of cooperative breeding in fluctuating environments". Thank you sincerely to the Mennill, Doucet and Dantzer labs for hosting me!

February 2018: Our new paper "Multiple benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment" is out in Royal Society Open Science. We explored how offspring care decision rules are adjusted according to rainfall or the social environment in a plural cooperative breeder.

January 2018: Rebecca Marcus was named a 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar for her research on the immune costs of breeding in superb starlings. This is one of the most prestigious high school science competitions in the USA, so well done Becca!

December 2017: I completed an awesome Instructional Skills Workshop, facilitated through the University of Guelph's Open Ed program. Highly recommended for new or experienced instructors alike.

October 2017: Our paper on testosterone, social conflict and parental care in superb starlings was accepted for publication in Hormones & Behavior. Congratulations to Alyx Pikus, the lead author, on publishing her MA thesis!

September 2017: I had a productive visit to 'squirrel camp' in the Yukon, where I learned all about the Kluane Red Squirrel Project. Thanks to the 2017 fall crew for teaching me to navigate on grid, count cones & capture squirrels!

June 2017: Becca Marcus was awarded an Acorda Scientific Excellence Award for her research on superb starling immune function. You can listen to Becca's interview about her research here. Great work Becca!

April 2017: I was awarded a graduate student travel grant to present my dissertation research at the Animal Behavior Society 2017 annual meeting. Thank you for the support ABS!

March 2017: Becca Marcus won 4th place for her presentation at the Westchester Science and Engineering Fair. Becca is a high school student working with me on examining the immune costs of reproduction in cooperatively breeding superb starlings. Congratulations!

October 2015: Our new paper on the oxidative cost of song production in snow buntings is out in Ethology. Check it out here

July 2015: My research on superb starlings was featured in the Mpala Research Centre newsletter. Follow this link to read about my preliminary findings on the relationship between survival and reproduction

April 2015: Superb starlings are featured in a PBS Nature documentary. The three part documentary is titled Animal Homes and our study population can be seen in the third episode, focused on Animal Cities

March 2015: I have been awarded an NSF DDIG with Dustin Rubenstein to fund upcoming field work! We plan to experimentally test how environmental conditions shape the costs of reproduction

May 2014: Dustin Rubenstein was awarded a grant from the National Geographic Society in order to fund part of my PhD research on how physiology allows tropical birds to cope with environmental uncertainty

April 2014: I received a grant from the American Ornithologists‘ Union to fund an upcoming project looking at how physiology allows tropical birds to cope with environmental uncertainty